Quotes About Literacy

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

never trust anyone without a book

Wicked people never have time for reading

Never trust anybody who has not brought a book with them.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

To be sure, the cheder curriculum was narrowly limited, the pedagogical methods primitive: drill, repetition, and cracks across the knuckles with a pointer or ruler. But at a time when the overwhelming majority of humanity was illiterate, there was hardly a Jewish male over the age of five who could not read and write. The cultural impact and importance of this are for historians, sociologists, and educators to appraise.

when the overwhelming majority of Europeans were illiterate, it would have been hard to find a Jewish male over the age of five who could not read. Virtually every Jewish boy had to learn Hebrew.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.

I'm delighted the world is becoming more mentally literate. A few decades ago, if you mentioned the word 'brain,' no one was interested. Now, nearly every magazine on the planet is featuring the brain. One of my original goals, on one level, was to make myself unnecessary.

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.